From the New York Times, 11/28/1892

WAR RELICS FOR CHICAGO.
TO BE EXHIBITED IN THE RECONSTRUCTED LIBBY PRISON.

PHILADELPHIA, NOV.
27. – Four trunks full of war relics and two distinguished men were
at the Continental Hotel for a few hours this afternoon. C. F.
Gunther and the Rev. F. W. Gunsalus of the Plymouth Tabernacle,
Chicago, stopped over in town on their way back to the Windy City
from the far South.

They have been
collecting the relics for the World’s Fair, and neither time nor
money has been spared in the effort to gather in for the exhibition
everything that was worth exhibiting. The stuff that was too bulky
to be packed in the trunks was shipped by express.

Three years ago
Mr. Gunther bought the old Libby Prison for $14,000, and at heavy
expense had it shipped to Chicago, where brick by brick and board by
board it was put up exactly as it stood during the war. The relics
collected now are to be arranged inside the structure, and the whole
thing will be open to World’s Fair visitors.

Mr. Gunther wanted to transfer
Independence Hall to Chicago, too, but to-day he admitted that the
transfer was a physical impossibility, even if Philadelphians would
let it go.